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Oct 13, 2009

Anter Singh v. State of Rajasthan 2004 (10) SCC 657

For Evidence Act sec 27
(1) The fact of which evidence is sought to be given must be relevant to the issue. It must be borne in mind that the provisions has nothing to do with the question of relevancy. The relevancy of the fact discovered must be established according to the prescription relating to relevancy of other evidence connecting it with the crime in order to make facts discovered admissible.
(2) The fact must be discovered.
(3)The discovery must have been in consequence of some information received from the accused and not by the accused's own act.
(4) The person giving information must be accused of an offence.
(5) He must be in the custody of a police officer.
(6) The discovery of a fact in consequence of information received from an accused in custody must be deposed to.
(7) Thereupon only that portion of the information which relates distinctly or strictly to the facts discovered can be proved. The rest is inadmissible.

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